Small sand elemental

A small sand elemental was a souvenir item received from completing a quest at the Wavedancer event in 2005. It is an ambient-style pet that is housed in a pale crystal shard that is worn around the neck. The elementals are not attuned and can be easily passed off to another owner, even fully trained.

Description

a small sand elemental patterned with alternating waves of dark and pale blue hue

The elemental is a miniature swirling storm of multi-hued sand, its millions of sparkling granules constantly shifting and spiraling in ever-renewed patterns of ethereal brilliance.  Its surface melds and constantly reforms in undulating ripples, while each granule appears to shift through the myriad hues of light and dark in a heartbeat.

Feeding

Feeding sapphires to the sand elemental is done as positive reinforcement for morphing and for following the owner's commands.

You extend the sapphire towards your sand elemental.

The sand elemental opens its form up into a wide funnel, its interior swirling and alighting with faint, tiny orbs of bright flame, and you drop the sapphire into the spinning cyclone, which is immediately ground up into tiny motes of sparkling dusty particles and incorporated into its being.  The elemental then reforms into an amorphous, shifting orb, glittering happily with its new meal.

Discipline

When the sand elemental refuses to obey the owner's commands, discipline needs to be administered. This is done by using water, a substance the elemental shows extreme dislike of. Discipline should be applied when the elemental does any of the following:

• Flaying your hand
• Causing localized quakes
• Bashing at you relentlessly
• Running back to its shard when not put inside by you

You pour the clear-hued liquid from your water onto the swirling surface of your sand elemental, causing it bristle and spike up irritably!